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Old 97’s Prepare For Stage in ‘Let’s Get Drunk’ (Video Premiere)

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Eric R. Danton

Jun 16, 2014 2:10 pm ET

The Old 97’s celebrate 20 years of seat-of-their-pants alt-rock mayhem on their new album, “Most Messed Up,” which has a particular emphasis on songs about overindulgence. “Let’s Get Drunk & Get It On” is one of them, and the Dallas band premieres the video today on Speakeasy.

The four-way split-screen clip follows each of the band members (clockwise from top left, bassist and singer Murry Hammond, drummer Philip Peeples, guitarist Ken Bethea and singer and guitarist Rhett Miller) as they wake up and get ready for a show—in this case, the first show of their 2014 tour, which kicked off in Dallas in April.

The concept for the video came from the band’s manager, Chris Suchorsky, Miller tells Speakeasy by e-mail. “No member of the 97′s is terribly visually-oriented,” Miller says. “That may be why we’ve made so few music videos.”

So how closely does the clip resemble an average day in the life of the Old 97’s? “Pretty closely,” Miller says. “Ken drinks coffee while skating around the neighborhood, Philip eats in the shower, Murry sleeps wherever he finds himself and I wake in the late-afternoon in a hotel room, fully dressed and stage-ready.”